ART WAS,

The world ended.

Humanity, undeterred, jettisonned themselves into the far reaches of space, on the promise of a new planet to call home. As was appropriate of the late twenty-first century, the people were carefully organised by their order of utility in society. The musicians went last — aboard Mockingbird 1.

In this gig theatre musical, a sentient spaceship sings the story of the final musicians in the universe. A popstar falls in love with an aspiring time traveller. The back up band finally get to work on their own masterpiece. A music teacher saves the world.

Mockingbird 1’s journey takes us all the way from the first utterances of our paleolithic ancestors, to the final notes of our doomed descendants, and in the face of everything, unapologetically asserts that art was, is, and will always be, what makes us human.